The following is a list of notable people who have served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University.
Authors, journalists, and writers
- Ravi Agrawal, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy
- Jonathan Alter, author covering U.S. Presidents
- Joseph Alsop, political reporter
- Cleveland Amory, writer. Amory is a former Crimson president.
- Eli Attie, speechwriter and screenwriter
- Michael Barone, television commentator, writer for The Washington Examiner, author
- Daniel J. Boorstin, American author and writer and Librarian of Congress
- Irin Carmon, reporter for MSNBC
- Sewell Chan, journalist for The Los Angeles Times
- Steve Chapman, columnist, Chicago Tribune
- Susan Chira, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project. Chira is a former Crimson president.
- Nicholas Ciarelli, founder and editor of Think Secret and founder of BookBub
- Adam Clymer, author, journalist for The New York Times. Clymer is a former Crimson president.
- Jonathan Cohn, author, journalist for HuffPost. Cohn is a former Crimson president.
- Richard Connell, author
- Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money. Cramer is a former Crimson president.
- Michael Crichton, author
- William O. Dapping, reporter for The Citizen in Auburn, New York
- E. J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post
- Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times
- Ethan Drogin, writer for Suits and Lie to Me
- Esther Dyson, digital technology analyst, author
- Daniel Ellsberg, author, released the Pentagon Papers
- David Fahrenthold, political reporter for The New York Times.
- James Fallows, journalist and speechwriter to Jimmy Carter. Fallows is a former Crimson president.
- Susan Faludi, author
- Alix M. Freedman, reporter and editor with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.
- Jennifer Frey, sports reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post
- Otto Fuerbringer, former editor of Time. Fuerbringer is a former Crimson president.
- Alessandra Galloni, editor in chief of Reuters
- V.V. Ganeshananthan, author and journalist
- Susan Glasser, journalist at The New Yorker
- George Goodman, a.k.a. "Adam Smith," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS
- Garrett Graff, former editor of Politico magazine and the Washingtonian
- Donald E. Graham, CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Co. Graham is a former Crimson president.
- Linda Greenhouse, journalist for The New York Times
- Michael Grunwald, journalist at Politico Magazine
- David Halberstam, author
- Laurie Hays, reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News
- Rosalind S. Helderman, reporter with The New York Times
- Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist for The New Yorker
- Javier Hernández, Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times
- David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post
- Sam Jacobs, editor-in-chief for Time
- Henry James, writer and biographer
- Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., publisher and CEO of The Washington Post. Jones is a former Crimson president.
- Joseph Kahn, Executive Editor of The New York Times. Kahn is a former Crimson president.
- Peter R. Kann, Pulitzer PrizeâÂÂwinning reporter for The Wall Street Journal
- Peter Kaplan, former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, current creative director of Condé Nast Traveler
- Mickey Kaus, journalist and political blogger
- Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered
- Michael Kinsley, journalist, founding editor of Slate magazine
- Sam Koppelman, journalist, founder of Hunterbrook
- Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for The New York Times
- Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic
- Jennifer 8. Lee, former journalist for The New York Times
- Melissa Lee, CNBC news anchor
- Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Lemann is a former Crimson president.
- Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information
- Anthony Lewis, author and former columnist for The New York Times
- Ivan Levingston, reporter for the Financial Times
- Charles Thornton Libby, author and historian
- Errol Louis, journalist and television show host
- Annie Lowrey, author and staff writer at The Atlantic.
- Arthur Lubow, journalist
- J. Anthony Lukas, author and Pulitzer PrizeâÂÂwinning journalist
- Michael M. Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker.
- Michael Maccoby, New York Times best-selling author and psychoanalyst. Maccoby is a former Crimson president.
- Dylan Matthews, writer for Vox
- Victor McElheny, science journalist and founder of the Knight Science Journalism program
- Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News
- Jon Morosi, reporter with MLB Network and NHL Network
- Eric Newcomer, tech journalist and founder of the publication Newcomer
- Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News
- Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch
- Evan Osnos, journalist for The New Yorker
- Philip Pan, journalist and author
- Alexandra Petri, comedy writer for The Washington Post
- Abby Phillip, CNN news anchor
- David Plotz, former CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of Slate Political Gabfest
- Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times
- Steven V. Roberts, former reporter for The New York Times, television journalist
- Joel Townsley Rogers, science fiction writer
- Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com and editor at Axios
- Yair Rosenberg, staff writer for The Atlantic
- Jack Rosenthal, journalist for The New York Times and president of The New York Times Company Foundation
- David Sanger, journalist for The New York Times
- Charlie Savage, Pulitzer PrizeâÂÂwinning journalist for The New York Times
- Robert Ellis Smith, noted journalist and creator of the Privacy Journal. Smith is a former Crimson president.
- Ira Stoll, New York Sun executive. Stoll is a former Crimson president.
- Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post editorial board
- Richard Strout, journalist with The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic
- Katrina Szish, television personality
- William Roscoe Thayer, author, editor, and historian
- Anton Troianovski, Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times
- Evan Thomas, associate managing editor of Newsweek
- Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst for CNN
- Pablo S. Torre, ESPN writer, television personality, podcast host
- Bayard Tuckerman, biographer
- Craig Unger, author and journalist
- George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer PrizeâÂÂwinning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News
- Mark Whitaker, senior vice president of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek
- Theodore H. White, prominent political and WWII journalist
- Amy Wilentz, journalist and contributing editor at The Nation
- Graeme Wood, author and journalist at The Atlantic
- Owen Wister, author of The Virginian and "father of Western fiction"
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, author
- Jeff Zucker, president of CNN and former president and CEO of NBC Universal. Zucker is a former Crimson president.
Academia
- Rediet Abebe, computer scientist, University of California, Berkeley
- Stephen Barnett, legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. Barnett is a former Crimson president.
- Nancy Bauer, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
- Geoffrey Cowan, professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- William Emerson, first dean of the MIT School of Architecture
- Rupert Emerson, professor of political science at Harvard
- Mark Gearan, former Peace Corps director and president of the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics
- Jamal Greene, professor at Columbia Law School
- Peter Kramer, psychiatrist, author
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn, philosopher and historian of science
- Alfred Henry Lloyd, philosopher and interim president at the University of Michigan
- Charles S. Maier, professor of history at Harvard University
- Jennifer Mnookin, incoming president of Columbia University
- John U. Monro, dean of Harvard College
- John Ulric Nef, economic historian
- Eric M. Nelson, professor of government at Harvard
- William Sydney Thayer, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Claude E. Welch Jr., political scientist at SUNY at Buffalo. Welch is a former Crimson president.
- Andrew Weil, MD, Integrative Medicine Founder, Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine Founder & Director / Professor of Medicine and Public Health / Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Medicine, Harvard
- Barrett Wendell, English professor at Harvard and the University of Paris
Business
- Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
- Hayley Barna, co-founder of Birchbox
- Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb
- Charlie Cheever, co-founder of Quora
- Parker Conrad, founder of Zenefits and Rippling
- John Cowles Sr., co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
- Gardner Cowles Jr., co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
- Robert Decherd, CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation. Decherd is a former Crimson president.
- Amos Tuck French, banker
- Albert Hamilton Gordon, owner of Kidder Peabody
- Matthew Granade, senior executive at Bridgewater and Point72
- Jennifer Hyman, co-founder of Rent The Runway
- Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon
- Alfred Winslow Jones, "the father of the hedge fund industry"
- Thomas W. Lamont, former Chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co.
- J. Spencer Love, president and chairman of Burlington Industries and namesake of the Love School of Business at Elon University
- James S. Marcus, investment banker and philanthropist
- David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and member of the Rockefeller family
- Philip Roosevelt, author, investment banker, and member of the Roosevelt family
- Walter E. Sachs, partner at Goldman Sachs and part of the GoldmanâÂÂSachs family
- Frederick M. Warburg, partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
- James Warburg, banker and member of the Warburg family
- Walter H. Wheeler Jr., president of Pitney Bowes
- Byron Wien, prominent investor with Morgan Stanley and Blackstone
- Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube
Film and television
Government and politics
- Robert Bacon, Secretary of State during the Theodore Roosevelt administration
- Franklin S. Billings, governor of Vermont
- Antony Blinken, Secretary of State during the Biden administration
- Richard Blumenthal, Senator from Connecticut
- Robert F. Bradford, governor of Massachusetts
- Robert J. Bulkley, Senator from Ohio
- Pete Buttigieg, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and 2020 presidential candidate
- Blair Clark, manager of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign. Clark is a former Crimson president.
- Henry Alden Clark, Representative from Pennsylvania. Clark was a co-founder of The Crimson.
- James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University from 1933-1953
- Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas
- Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and communications director for Kamala Harris in 2024
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field, socialist activist
- Jon Finer, deputy national security advisor in the Biden administration
- Augustus P. Gardner, Representative from Massachusetts
- James Glassman, journalist, diplomat, and director of the George W. Bush Institute
- C. Boyden Gray, Committee for Justice chairman and White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush
- David Gray, United States ambassador to Ireland
- Joseph Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until December 8, 1941
- Curtis Guild Jr., governor of Massachusetts
- Powers Hapgood, Socialist Party leader
- Alanson B. Houghton, Representative from New York and U.S. ambassador to Germany and the United Kingdom
- Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Australia and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
- Corliss Lamont, founder of the National Council of AmericanâÂÂSoviet Friendship
- W. Kingsland Macy, Representative from New York
- Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform
- Lithgow Osborne, United States Ambassador to Norway
- Chris Pappas, Representative from New Hampshire
- Mark Penn, chief political strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign
- Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939
- Josiah Quincy VI, mayor of Boston
- Gina Raimondo, former Governor of Rhode Island and Secretary of Commerce during the Biden administration
- Alastair Rellie, MI6 director
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt is a former Crimson president.
- Elise Stefanik, Representative from New York
- Frederic Jesup Stimson, writer and United States Ambassador to Argentina
- Arthur Sweetser, journalist and diplomat
- Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist and funder of the Monthly Review
- Henry Serrano Villard, United States ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania
- Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan
- Fairfax Henry Wheelan, San Francisco political reformer
- Samuel Winslow, Representative from Massachusetts
Law
- Francis R. Appleton, prominent 19th-century attorney
- Arthur A. Ballantine, attorney and first-ever solicitor for the IRS
- David J. Barron, circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Barron is a former Crimson president.
- David Bruck, capital defense attorney
- Paul A. Engelmayer, circuit judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Garrett Epps, author and law school professor. Epps is a former Crimson president.
- Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General during the Biden administration, former Circuit Judge and former Supreme Court nominee
- Melissa Hart, justice on the Colorado Supreme Court
- Albert M. Kales, originator of the Missouri Plan
- Leondra Kruger, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
- Samuel D. Warren II, co-founder of Nutter McClennen & Fish with Louis Brandeis
Military
Music and art
Science and medicine
Sports
Theology and religion
Recent Harvard Crimson leadership
References